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The Fine Art of Web Development by Martin Ivanov

During the last couple of days I worked hard on some new features for elevenrack.net, which I hope will improve the user experience of the website and will drive more visitors and users. I am happy to share the latest additions today. Improved Search The search functionality now supports search by letter, artist and preset … Continue reading “Open API, HTML5 Widgets, Improved Search, Session Caching and Favorites Bar for ElevenRack.net”

Freelance websites are cheap employers’ favorite places to hire cheap developers to build their big and shiny dreams at discount prices and low quality, and make these sites owners rich for making both sides happy and content.

Hiding emails from spam bots can be really painful, but fortunately there are a lot of cool solutions out there. Here’s how you can do this with the CSS3 generated content and reversed text direction. Let’s say that email you want to obfuscate is info@company.com. The first thing you need to do it to reverse … Continue reading “Hiding Emails from Spam Bots: The CSS3 Way”

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction. It is not uncommon to be asked to write a JavaScript function that checks if a string is a palindrome on front-end developer position interview. Here’s one … Continue reading “Checking if String is a Palindrome with JavaScript”

Try Semtex – the new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript UI framework! I started my blog back in 2006 and later, in 2012 the experiments website as places where I could share my experience and insight in front-end development in my spare time, and ever since I’ve been getting thousands of visitors each month. Recently, however, … Continue reading “Donation Request”

The post for today is not something really special or super amazing. It’s just a quick and dirty trick that I use when I have to create inline forms for selecting files in which the actual input is hidden, and users click some text node (link, button, etc) that opens the browse for file dialog, … Continue reading “How to Create an Inline Masked File Upload Form with CSS3 and HTML5”

Try Semtex – the new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript UI framework! I am not a huge fan of roundups, but this morning, I found that I have a few pretty popular CSS3 posts and decided to put them in a single post which will be updated whenever a new one appears and is worth seeing. … Continue reading “Loving my CSS3 Babies”

Crossbrowser image reflections enabler JavaScript class. JavaScript Mapper Class for RESTFul Methods – Recently I had to work with a bunch of RESTFul API methods, so instead of defining manually separate calls/methods for each API request, I decided to do it viceversa – to force JavaScript to create these methods automatically for me out of the … Continue reading “Useful JavaScript Classes and Functions”